Jonathan Ross, whose TV interview with David Cameron earlier this year caused controversy, was in a spot of bother again yesterday after actor Rupert Everett talked about 'masturbating as a Catholic' on his Radio 2 show. By Rowan Walker.

It has just gone 8.30pm on Thursday night at the R Bar in Esher and in a minute some 'desperate' and 'ghastly' Surrey housewives with peroxide-blonde hair are supposed to start 'throwing themselves over men' and 'lifting their skirts up with no knickers on'.

It started with the Yuppies, those endlessly aspiring young upwardly mobile professionals who drove fast cars, wore expensive suits, got their hair streaked, bought flats in London's Docklands and tried to make as much money as fast as possible.

In 2004, 50 Cent was booed offstage in a rain of plastic bottles. This year, Brendan Urie, frontman of the band Panic! At the Disco, was hit by a bottle seconds into his set on the main stage at Reading Festival.

It's a hot summer's day and you're lounging on the beach. You can't wait to get back into your favourite read while soaking up the rays, but the sun's in your eyes, there's sand in your sandwich, your head is starting to feel like the inside of a pressure cooker and it's becoming an effort even to turn the page. But there is a way out - the Cush'n Shade.